The Cellar - View Single Post - So, UT, what do you think of the Iraq big picture now?

SteveDallas · 09-29-2003, 06:47 PM

I've given up trying to figure out what to think.

In the worst of all possible Iraqi situations, there would still be some positive outcomes and positive stories. In the best of all possible outcomes there would still be bad things going on. People who think the media are in the back pocket of the President and his cronies (aka Right Wing Conspiracy) are ignoring a lot of very liberal folks who work in the news racket. People who think the media are just dying for Bush to fail (aka the Pinko Liberal Elite Conspiracy) are ignoring the fact that the media are mostly owned by a bunch of rabid right-wingers and that the pundit class at least (if not reporters) skew heavily right. Who am I, sitting home here in Pennsyltucky, supposed to believe? George Bush? Colin Powell? The NY Times? Instapundit.com? Salon.com? FOX news? Jacques Chirac? CNN? Matt Drudge?

Fuck it. History will decide. Why should I waste my time trying to figure out what's really going on when, as far as I can tell, NOBODY has a complete firsthand picture of the entire Iraqi situation. Especially when EVERYBODY insists that we aren't entitled to simultaneously believe that a) Saddam was a psychotic bastard who should have been taken out years ago and b) we shouldn't have taken him out by ourselves. You were either anti-war (and you now have to answer for all the atrocities of the Baathist regime) or you were pro-war (and you now have to answer for all the atrocities happening in Iraq now).

09-29-2003, 06:47 PM	#4
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	I've given up trying to figure out what to think. In the worst of all possible Iraqi situations, there would still be some positive outcomes and positive stories. In the best of all possible outcomes there would still be bad things going on. People who think the media are in the back pocket of the President and his cronies (aka Right Wing Conspiracy) are ignoring a lot of very liberal folks who work in the news racket. People who think the media are just dying for Bush to fail (aka the Pinko Liberal Elite Conspiracy) are ignoring the fact that the media are mostly owned by a bunch of rabid right-wingers and that the pundit class at least (if not reporters) skew heavily right. Who am I, sitting home here in Pennsyltucky, supposed to believe? George Bush? Colin Powell? The NY Times? Instapundit.com? Salon.com? FOX news? Jacques Chirac? CNN? Matt Drudge? Fuck it. History will decide. Why should I waste my time trying to figure out what's really going on when, as far as I can tell, NOBODY has a complete firsthand picture of the entire Iraqi situation. Especially when EVERYBODY insists that we aren't entitled to simultaneously believe that a) Saddam was a psychotic bastard who should have been taken out years ago and b) we shouldn't have taken him out by ourselves. You were either anti-war (and you now have to answer for all the atrocities of the Baathist regime) or you were pro-war (and you now have to answer for all the atrocities happening in Iraq now).